DEVIL TALES BY VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR BURDETT FROST

 

 January 17, 1851

Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 – June 22, 1928), usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books.

Frost's work is known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence and for his realistic hunting, shooting and golfing prints. He illustrated over 90 books, produced hundreds of paintings and was a pioneer in the development of comic strips. He was admitted posthumously to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1985.WIKIPEDIA

 

“HE HEAR ALL DE SECRETS ER DER CREEPIN’ THINGS”

Frontispiece

 

 

OLD CINDER CAT

 

‘’CASE DE HOODOO AM ’ER ’OMAN’

 

 

“SHE FOLLOWED OLD CINDER CAT”
 

 

“THE CHARM WAS FOREVER BROKEN, AND THE COMELY HOODOO KNEW IT”

 

 

“A KINGDOM FOR MICAJAH”

 

              

        “PERZACKLY LIKE OLE MARSE”

 

 

"GO ON AND HAVE A GOOD TIME, MICAJAH"

 

“HE COLLARED HIS ASTONISHED LITTLE NIGGER” 

 

ASMODEUS IN THE QUARTERS

“UNDER THE TREES IN THE WOOD-LOT”
 

“HE DES FOLLER UV ’EM EVER’ NIGHT”

 

“HE HEAR MISSAR JONES’S SAMBO FIVE MILE ERWAY”

 

 

“SHADRACH HE RIZ WID HE OWN COAT-TAILS”

 

“IN DE SHAPE UV ER BIG JACK-RABBIT”

 

 

THE TAMING OF JEZRUL

“OH! THE HORROR OF THE THING”

“‘BURN! BURN!’”

 

“AN’ CRECY WERE WID ’EM”

 

DARK ER DE MOON

“‘I GWINE WARM YO’ BIMEBY’”

 

“DEY RETCH AN’ STRETCH TODES ONE NUTHER”

 

 

“UNC’ ’JAH AND THE DEVIL SNAKE”

 

“UNC’ ’JAH AIN’T TALKIN’”

 

“AN’ SPLIT DE WIN’ DES ’HINE DE FLY”

 

“AN’ SHO’ BEAT DE GRASSHOPPER”

 

 

“DEY FLEWED AN’ DEY FLEWED”

 

 

“AN’ GIB ONE LAS’ AWFUL HOWL”
 

THE OTHER MAUMER

“HER HEART WAS NOT IN HER WORK”

“SHOULD SHE DO IT?”
 

 

“‘FLY, FLY,’ SHE WHISPERED”

 

“SHE CAME ON BAT’S WINGS”

 

“‘DE BUTTERFLIES DONE COME BACK’”